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Alum Profile: Collaboration, Brainstorming and Exchanging Ideas as a GIS Analyst
February 12, 2025
Congratulations to Ph.D. Alum Iain Hay, Recipient of the 2024
Laureat d’honneur
from the International Geographical Union!
April 22, 2024
Alum Profile: Building a Legal Career Inspired by Urban Geography and Pursuit of Social Justice
April 17, 2024
Alum Profile: From Cape Cod to the Pacific Northwest and Beyond
April 15, 2024
Remembering Geography Professor Emeritus Richard L. Morrill
April 2, 2024
Kam Wing Chan and Xiaxia Yang’s Commentary on China’s Urban Youth is Published in Caixin Weekly
January 31, 2024
Meet Isaac Rivera, One of the 2023 College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Medalists
July 13, 2023
Remembering Geography Ph.D. Alum Stanley Toops
February 1, 2023
How to fix the mental health workforce? WA has an underutilized resource: peer counselors
January 30, 2023
Remembering Geography Ph.D. Alum John Brian Parr
January 25, 2023
Q&A with Geography Ph.D. Alum Rob Anderson: Managing Washington’s gray wolf population – through fear
November 21, 2022
UW Alums Share Their Stories as "Geographers in Practice"
October 1, 2022
40 Under 40: Natasha Rivers, BECU
September 26, 2022
Celebrating Pride Month
May 31, 2022
Recent Geography Alum Bukhari Shakil Featured by Career & Internship Center
March 21, 2022
Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month
September 8, 2021
ArtSci Roundup: A new Measure: the Revolutionary Quantum Reform of the Metric System, Sacred Breath: Indigenous Writing and Storytelling Series, and more
May 10, 2021
Remembering UW Geography Alum Gerald Halmo
March 30, 2021
A year with COVID-19: A chronology of how the UW adapted — and responded — to the pandemic
March 4, 2021
ArtSci Roundup: Katz Distinguished Lecture: Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Contemporary Environmental Issues In Taiwan, Global Perspectives on Restorative Justice & Race, and More
February 17, 2021
Dr. Lawson (Honors Director and Geography Faculty) Interview with Talia Kertsmann
November 12, 2020
‘2020: The Course’ ponders the meaning of this unusual year
October 30, 2020
Alum Profile: From Hackathon to Amazon, Utako Kase is Proud to Have Studied Geography
February 18, 2020
Alum Profile: Robert Hendrickson Shows the Value in GIS
February 7, 2020
Alum Profile: Staying Positive and Curious, Matt Manolides Finds Success with GIS
July 11, 2019
In Just Two Short Quarters, Transfer Student Ji Hae Hong Finds Opportunities for Success at UW - and Abroad!
May 1, 2019
Alum Profile: Dr. Jay Lund Elected to National Academy of Engineering
February 12, 2019
Alum Profile: From Yakima to Edinburgh, UW Geography Alum Melissa Espinoza Pursues a Career Researching Housing and Homelessness
February 7, 2019
An Inventive Sewage Solution
January 6, 2019
Geography alum publishes new book on geodata, geolocation, and mapping
November 21, 2017
Geography Alum Anisa Jackson Published in
Ghosts of Seattle Past
April 13, 2017
Ph.D. alum Andre Ortega receives award for excellence in research
March 28, 2017
UW Geography Ph.D. grad receives teaching award from another UW
March 28, 2017
Geography alumni row in Rio Olympics
September 12, 2016
Geography alum helps unearth wealth of ORCA card data
August 23, 2016
Teaching Environmental Science and Water Quality at a Liberal Arts College
June 29, 2015
Blending Teaching, Activism, and Anti-Racist Practice
June 29, 2015
Geographies of Climate Change and Social Activism
June 29, 2015
Researching Water Disparities and Contributing to Water Policy
June 29, 2015
Common Good Cafe session with Matt Sparke
March 15, 2014
Alumnus Sam Nowak Featured in Perspectives Newsletter
August 25, 2013
iLEAP, UW Alum Featured in Humanosphere Article
November 19, 2012
Alumni Profile: Tricia Ruiz
November 14, 2012
Alumni Profile: Greg Hitchcock
November 6, 2012
Alumni Profile: Britt Yamamoto
October 29, 2012
Geography Career Panel Recap
February 1, 2012
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